ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,464, issued on July 21, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Machine learning model, program, ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound diagnostic system, image processing apparatus, and training apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Kawabata (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for efficiently generating time-varying image data for use in training a machine learning model are disclosed. An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a machine learning model trained using training data that includes at least one piece of training time-varying image data of second time-varyin...